"I pretty immediately after doing that fell off the scooter and hurt myself pretty badly," Meyers said. "Making it all the worse was five minutes before I fell off my scooter, I sent an iPhone video to my wife saying of me on the scooter saying, and these were my exact words: 'Look at me, I am young and cool.'"

Meyers said he hit the pavement in a pretty public place, and others in the area groaned in agony as he fell.

"And then I did that thing when you fall and you're embarrassed," he said. "So I got up right away and started walking to show everybody I was fine. But the gait that I had made it very clear that i was not fine."

Meyers said he hurt his wrist while falling. Making matter worse was the fact that he spent a lot of the trip after his crash running into old friends from college and having to shake hands at every greeting.

"I was in a situation where I could have said, 'I can't shake your hand. I hurt my wrist,'" he said. "But then that would lead to the next question (of) what happened to your wrist. I then I'd have to say I fell off a scooter."